Bassam Ayachi

Bassam Ayachi (1947-) was a Belgian-Syrian sheikh affiliated with Ahrar ash-Sham during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Bassam Ayachi was born in 1947 in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels, Belgium to a Muslim family. Becoming an imam, he became a leader of Islamic extremism in Belgium, and he headed to Syria to join Ahrar ash-Sham during the Syrian Civil War. Ayachi lost his arm when a bomb struck his car on 23 December 2015, but he remained in Syria and continued to spread his radical beliefs in Syria.